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The real trend is deflation.

People are having fewer children.

Fewer miles are driven to fewer offices for fewer trips in cars.

Fewer impulse buys are being made and fewer dollars will be made by advertisements (according to the ops conjecture).

This is not inflationary. It is the opposite.

We live in a deeply deflationary world and we should not be confused by the local, transitory inflation that we may be experiencing at this moment.



This! Consumption is made of impulse choices. (most of the times).

Also we are having fewer children, does this drug reduce also the impulse of having sexual desires? In that case that would be even worst.


Maybe if everyone becomes skinny we'll start having more sex because everyone looks better.


All this sounds fantastic for environmental sustainability.


Monetary deflation is easy to solve: just print more money.

But who do you give it to? Well, obviously, you give it to billionaires because they are the best at managing money because they're billionaires. They can then spend it on wages, without having to produce anything useful because they are just getting free printed money.




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